PART 3PLANNING PERMISSION
CHAPTER 5APPLYING FOR PLANNING PERMISSION AND RELATED APPROVALS
Requirements for applications to planning authorities
58Notice of application for planning permission or approval of reserved matters
(1)
Regulations must require an applicant for planning permission or for approval of a reserved matter to give notice of the application to every person (other than the applicant) who on a date specified in the regulations is—
(a)
an owner of any of the land to which the application relates, or
(b)
an agricultural tenant of any of the land.
(2)
The regulations may require the applicant to make a declaration that any requirements of the regulations have been complied with.
(3)
The regulations may make provision about—
(a)
the form and content of a notice or declaration;
(b)
how a notice or declaration must be given (which may include provision requiring a notice to be published).
(4)
It is an offence for a person in purported compliance with a requirement imposed under this section—
(a)
to make a declaration that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material respect, or
(b)
to recklessly make a declaration that is false or misleading in a material respect.
(5)
A person guilty of an offence under subsection (4) is liable on summary conviction to a fine.
(6)
Despite section 127 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), a magistrates’ court may try an information in respect of an offence under subsection (4) whenever it is laid.
(7)
In this section—
“agricultural tenant” (“tenant amaethyddol”), in relation to land, means—
(a)
a tenant, under a tenancy to which the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c. 5) applies, of an agricultural holding (within the meaning of that Act) any part of which is included in that land, or
(b)
a tenant, under a farm business tenancy within the meaning of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 (c. 8), of land any part of which is included in that land;
“owner” (“perchennog”), in relation to land, means—
(a)
an owner of the freehold estate,
(b)
a tenant under a lease granted or extended for a fixed term that has at least 7 years left to run, or
(c)
in the case of an application of a description specified in regulations, a person who is entitled to an interest in any mineral specified in the regulations.